Sunday to Monday

In preparation for our Thursday morning men’s study this week, we read a stimulating and evocative piece in Devotional Classics by Kathleen Norris entitled, “Finding Faith in the Mundane.” In the final paragraph she writes, “It was in the play of writing a poem that I first became aware that the demands of laundry might have something to do with God’s command that we worship, that we sing praise on a regular basis. Both laundry and worship are repetitive activities with a potential for tedium, and I hate to admit it, but laundry often seems like the more useful of the tasks. Both are the work that God has given us to do.”

This resonates deeply with my core belief that the Four-Chapter Gospel (Ought-Is-Can-Will), the overarching narrative of Scripture, insists on the radical connection of Sunday and Monday. The inseparable nature of worship and work.

In the Psalm appointed for this week the admonition to us, in fact, is to worship God for the work of his hands. God himself desires—by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit—to be known as a worker (a word used to describe him seven times in the passage). And it’s his image in which we are created.

This Sunday we will explore the sacredness of both Sunday and Monday mornings.